DevOps Job Trends in Swansea

DevOps
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -13 0 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 63 2 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 12.23% 5.41% 11.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.91% 6.45% 15.00%
Number of salaries quoted 58 2 12
10th Percentile £36,300 £38,960 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,800 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,515 £43,867 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.11% -12.27% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £46,933 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £48,773 £65,000
West Wales median annual salary £57,515 £43,867 £50,000
% change year-on-year +31.11% -12.27% +11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 396 31 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 76.89% 83.78% 78.13%
Number of salaries quoted 238 19 77
10th Percentile £32,000 £21,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £37,733 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.57% -16.15% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £54,685 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,201 £59,857 £70,000
West Wales median annual salary £45,000 £37,733 £42,500
% change year-on-year +19.26% -11.22% -5.56%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Swansea.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Swansea

DevOps
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Swansea

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Swansea over the 6 months to 26 September 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Swansea

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.59%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 56 (88.89%) Azure
2 35 (55.56%) AWS
3 31 (49.21%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (44.44%) GCP
5 18 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (15.87%) GitHub
7 9 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (11.11%) Serverless
9 5 (7.94%) Azure AI
10 3 (4.76%) Amazon S3
11 2 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (3.17%) Miro
12 1 (1.59%) Cloud Composer
12 1 (1.59%) Dagster
12 1 (1.59%) Datadog
12 1 (1.59%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (30.16%) MongoDB
1 19 (30.16%) MySQL
1 19 (30.16%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (26.98%) NoSQL
3 6 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 5 (7.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (6.35%) Redis
6 3 (4.76%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.59%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.59%) Metadata
7 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (38.10%) Git
2 16 (25.40%) JIRA
3 9 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 9 (14.29%) Selenium
4 8 (12.70%) GitLab
5 6 (9.52%) JUnit
5 6 (9.52%) Postman
6 5 (7.94%) Cypress.io
6 5 (7.94%) RSpec
7 4 (6.35%) minitest
8 3 (4.76%) Bugzilla
8 3 (4.76%) Newman
8 3 (4.76%) REST Assured
8 3 (4.76%) TestRail
8 3 (4.76%) Zephyr
9 1 (1.59%) Mocha
General
1 34 (53.97%) Public Sector
2 24 (38.10%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (25.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (25.40%) Social Skills
4 14 (22.22%) Banking
5 5 (7.94%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (7.94%) Marketing
6 4 (6.35%) Finance
7 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (50.79%) Developer
2 14 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 12 (19.05%) Senior
4 11 (17.46%) Software Developer
5 9 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 9 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (14.29%) Junior
5 9 (14.29%) Junior DevOps
5 9 (14.29%) Junior DevOps Engineer
5 9 (14.29%) Senior Developer
6 7 (11.11%) Lead
7 5 (7.94%) .NET Developer
7 5 (7.94%) Senior Software Developer
8 4 (6.35%) Ruby Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Principal Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Principal Software Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (46.03%) RESTful
2 24 (38.10%) Spring
2 24 (38.10%) Spring Boot
2 24 (38.10%) Terraform
3 19 (30.16%) Kafka
3 19 (30.16%) RabbitMQ
4 18 (28.57%) React
5 17 (26.98%) Hibernate
5 17 (26.98%) JPA
6 11 (17.46%) Node.js
6 11 (17.46%) Ruby on Rails
7 8 (12.70%) Playwright
8 6 (9.52%) .NET
8 6 (9.52%) CSS
8 6 (9.52%) Jest
9 5 (7.94%) .NET Core
9 5 (7.94%) ASP.NET
9 5 (7.94%) ASP.NET Core
9 5 (7.94%) GraphQL
9 5 (7.94%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 27 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 25 (39.68%) Cloud Native
3 20 (31.75%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (22.22%) Virtual Team
5 7 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (9.52%) Mainframe
7 5 (7.94%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.59%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.94%) Linux
2 3 (4.76%) AIX
3 1 (1.59%) Windows
3 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (84.13%) Agile
2 40 (63.49%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 39 (61.90%) CI/CD
4 33 (52.38%) Scrum
5 32 (50.79%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (49.21%) Microservices
7 27 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
8 25 (39.68%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 23 (36.51%) Containerisation
10 22 (34.92%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (34.92%) Observability
10 22 (34.92%) Software Engineering
11 20 (31.75%) Decision-Making
11 20 (31.75%) Event-Driven
11 20 (31.75%) Mentoring
11 20 (31.75%) Project Delivery
11 20 (31.75%) Technical Leadership
12 19 (30.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 18 (28.57%) Incident Management
14 17 (26.98%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 27 (42.86%) Java
2 15 (23.81%) JavaScript
3 12 (19.05%) SQL
4 11 (17.46%) Ruby
5 8 (12.70%) C#
6 6 (9.52%) Python
7 5 (7.94%) TypeScript
8 4 (6.35%) Bicep
9 3 (4.76%) Go
10 2 (3.17%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.59%) Bash
11 1 (1.59%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (11.11%) ISTQB
2 4 (6.35%) SC Cleared
2 4 (6.35%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.76%) Degree
3 3 (4.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 2 (3.17%) CBAP
4 2 (3.17%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.17%) PMP
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.59%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (38.10%) QA
2 9 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 8 (12.70%) WCAG
4 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 32 (50.79%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 15 (23.81%) Grafana
2 15 (23.81%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (22.22%) Splunk
2 9 (14.29%) Google
2 9 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.52%) OneLogin
4 3 (4.76%) Oracle